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This is from a shitload of pages back, but this reminds me of when you go to the eye doctor and they have a rack of new frames for you to try on. Okay, my contribution to the thread. When my husband was attending Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, they started building a new School of Management, and he and I both goggled at the sketches going "okay, but it's not actually going to look like THAT when it's finished, is it?" This was our introduction to Frank Gehry. This thing is super-fun to drive past on sunny days.
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Khazar-khum posted:That's not the best part. I love the fact that the Welsh room was the one that took the longest to be incorporated! Everyone forgets the Welsh. Anyway, I was looking to see if that Frank Gehry guy had designed any building in the UK and it turns out he did. This is the Maggies Centre in Dundee: That is probably why he doesn't design many buildings in the UK.
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Accretionist posted:Palette Cleanser: The Cathedral of Learning Man, that really is an amazing building. The national teaching rooms are also all wonderful. I like the approach they took with those to have them funded and designed by local communities. Random aside, it is a "palate cleanser" not a palette one. It refers to a drink or little bit of food served between courses clear the taste of the last course before starting the next one, hence cleansing the palate. MyFaceBeHi posted:I love the fact that the Welsh room was the one that took the longest to be incorporated! Everyone forgets the Welsh. That's actually one of the better Gehry buildings I've seen... I should try and dig up some photos of my old school. Brutalist to a fault but actually rather nice. It really helps that they actually painted the concrete white... That said the utilisation of interior space wasn't that efficient. The photos I've found online are kinda so-so:
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spacing in vienna posted:This is from a shitload of pages back, but this reminds me of when you go to the eye doctor and they have a rack of new frames for you to try on. I imagine that most civil engineering departments now have a secret class that all grads have to pass which instructs how to spot an aspiring Geary replacement and how to dispose of the body (without messing with the structural integrity of the pour).
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The "TF" on the building is because it's the Headquarters of "Tapir Force," right?
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Munin posted:Random aside, it is a "palate cleanser" not a palette one. It refers to a drink or little bit of food served between courses clear the taste of the last course before starting the next one, hence cleansing the palate. Clearly you've never scrubbed palettes for a living.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eu9QGD41mk
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# ? Jun 23, 2015 17:04 |
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Palette Cleanser: Redux
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# ? Jun 23, 2015 17:16 |
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Accretionist posted:Palette Cleanser: Redux That is a really expensive bonfire. (Then again you save a lot in construction cost so it's probably +-0 in the end.)
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Once PBS aired an entire documentary by the 'master' Frank Gehry, showing him learning to make a film with prosumer camcorders and iMovie. He was such an auteur that he was able to deploy the same techniques as a hundred thousand film students a year, but since hes a famous architect a TV channel with millions of viewers gave him the time of day. He spoke of his art! He, like most architects, is nothing but an authoritarian dolt who plays for the patronage of the elite. His sole purpose outside of the history books will be to make the ultimate garbage architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, look good with his leaking ceilings and lovely design that made dumb americans and randians happy.
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Pallets are different from palettes are different from palates guys let's get it together. Also I want to live in the Cathedral of Learning forever and ever.
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# ? Jun 23, 2015 17:36 |
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Skinny King Pimp posted:Pallets are different from palettes are different from palates guys let's get it together. There are also pellets!
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# ? Jun 23, 2015 17:38 |
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http://www.wadeweissmannarchitecture.com/portfolio/Portfolio.aspx?categoryID=2&workID=54 If you're exercising in a place this fancy, you can afford your own pilates cleanser. Pontius Pilate's pool needs some cleaning.
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But enough about paləts: That is aggressively ugly.
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# ? Jun 23, 2015 18:03 |
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Looks as if that entire siding comes down like a shutter at the end of the day.
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# ? Jun 23, 2015 18:09 |
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Are they trying to stop armour piercing RPG attacks?
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As carparks go it's not too bad.
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:The house of our student nation, Urdsgjallar (named after a drinking horn of Viking mythology) in Espoo, Finland deserves a mention. Reminds me of the UAA ANSEP building, which is supposed to look like a canoe made by one of the indigenous Alaskan tribes: It's goofy but I like it.
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padijun posted:Reminds me of the UAA ANSEP building, which is supposed to look like a canoe made by one of the indigenous Alaskan tribes:
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boom boom boom posted:There's this you motherfucker, I live a handful of blocks from the darth vader house.
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padijun posted:Reminds me of the UAA ANSEP building, which is supposed to look like a canoe made by one of the indigenous Alaskan tribes: Concept looks nice but I'm not sold on the material they eventually made it with. That said it is curious how often the sandcrawler comparison can be pulled out. Skinny King Pimp posted:Pallets are different from palettes are different from palates guys let's get it together. I mean, really. I do expect better of SA!
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# ? Jun 23, 2015 22:05 |
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gently caress you pig the unusual dog is a masterpiece
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# ? Jun 23, 2015 22:13 |
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That dog is challenging my preconceptions and inspiring greater empathy. Edit: Although I do believe he could be contemporized by the addition of perforated side-paneling.
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# ? Jun 23, 2015 23:00 |
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For a proper palate cleansing, have a pullet surprise!
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 04:54 |
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One of these days I gotta take a picture of my uncle's garage door house out in the sticks. My place isn't much better, I bought it for 50k "as is" Been here for 4 years, lot of weird things were done including my own weird additions. Prior to me ever selling it, will probably get an inspection to see how much poo poo is actually hosed up. But my mortgage is $300/mo so, eh. This neat thing is also in the neighborhood SSH IT ZOMBIE fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Jun 24, 2015 |
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SSH IT ZOMBIE posted:One of these days I gotta take a picture of my uncle's garage door house out in the sticks. Are The Herculoids good neighbors?
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branding!
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 08:29 |
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Feminition posted:branding! It looks much better with the defense grid up.
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# ? Jun 24, 2015 09:11 |
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Xlorp posted:For a proper palate cleansing, have a pullet surprise! I wish it weren't so deeply red, now it sounds stupid when I say "wow that looks pallid"
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spite house posted:Los Angeles, despite its underwhelming downtown skyline, has some great architecture. Also some terrible architecture. It's kind of all-or-nothing with this place. Are these ugly faux-Italians the ones up on Sunset? Like Cesar Chavez north of downtown? Yes, they are loving ugly. Also when that fire happened I could see it out my apt window all the way from Olympic/Alvarado. It was loving epic. You could feel the heat like a mile away.
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SSH IT ZOMBIE posted:This neat thing is also in the neighborhood Maybe it's just me, but when I look at this I'm thinking "asbestos". Specifically the sprayed stuff that was used to coat steel beams etc.
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Zopotantor posted:Maybe it's just me, but when I look at this I'm thinking "asbestos". Specifically the sprayed stuff that was used to coat steel beams etc. Why would you need to coat steel beams with asbestos? I mean it's not like anything can melt them anyway!
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Jerry Cotton posted:Why would you need to coat steel beams with asbestos? I mean it's not like anything can melt them anyway!
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Jerry Cotton posted:Why would you need to coat steel beams with asbestos? I mean it's not like anything can melt them anyway!
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Shifty Pony posted:I imagine that most civil engineering departments now have a secret class that all grads have to pass which instructs how to spot an aspiring Geary replacement and how to dispose of the body (without messing with the structural integrity of the pour). I took that course. The key is the architect is buried by the neutral axis of your basemat . The secret for us structural engineered that in general, we aren't paid nearly as well as architects and construction managers, so overambitious architects are a great way to rack up huge engineering fees since you have to custom design connections, spans, etc. Some of the best paid structural guys are the ones that can hold their nose working for them to make their projects happen. You dispose of them after you get paid.
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I might be outing myself, but that looks cool as hell.
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Speaking of Gehry wannabes, Thankfully, this never got built.
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